Spring Your Good Intentions Into Action...
Workshop Ideas?

We Want to Hear From You!

We are planning our next season of workshops.

What would you like to see us offer? 

Let us know here...
Why is it that North America is one of the few places on the planet where insects are not consciously part of the food system? Is it time to change that?
New HGI Blog Entries

Edible Bugs and
Mushrooms in Small and Shady Spaces
Last month, Up Close & Personal participants helped to install a wine cap wood chip bed, inoculate oak logs with shitake plus (pictured here) and assembled and took home oyster mushroom kits.
Homestead Tours
Coming in July and August
Peas planted in the Earth Box, a sub-irrigated system.
Bees in the top bar hive are the newest arrival to the homestead.
Workshop participants in December built a small hoop house. Now we can grow food year round!
Learn to "brew" kombucha, a healthy fermented beverage
They're growing up! All the gals are now laying
Worms + Kitchen Scraps make THE best fertilizer!
Up Close & Personal
Sunday June 30, 1pm to 5pm

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE June 9

Edible Bugs... I Dare You!
with special guest
chef Glenn Bergman of Weavers Way
early bird $29 plus $10 materials fee

In June, as part of a partnership with Morris Arboretum's summer bug exhibit and celebration, we will learn about (and taste) how cultures all over the world use bugs as part of their food supply. In addition to bugs, as always, we explore homesteading practices such as keeping backyard chickens, bees, mushrooms, composting worms, season extension, and brewing kefir and kombucha.

What You Get for $29
(plus $10 take-home mushroom materials fee)

The Up Close & Personal workshop includes: 

  • exploration of modern day "homesteading"
  • tour with Q & A on season extension techniques, indoor composting with worms, aquaponics, backyard chickens, beekeeping, community organizing, and more...
  • hands on experience brewing kombucha and a take-home "scoby" starter for your own brewing

And, as if that weren't enough
an in depth focus each month ... this month on edible insects.

 

Each participant also receives electronically a half dozen documents that The Home Grown Institute has prepared on composting, natural cleaners, fermentation aquaponics and more. 

What Are You Waiting For?
 

Sunday June 30, from 1pm to 5pm
Space is limited, last month quickly sold out
$29+ 10 early bird registration until June 9
$39 + 10 after June 9


Register here...
Need a Little Extra Help?
The Home Grown Institute offers personal consultations

Not sure the best spot to put your raised bed? Deciding whether to raise hens from chicks? Confused about which bees to order? Drawing from our personable and experienced experts, we successfully match you with the right practitioner for the job. Contact us for more details.
May and June Events
from our Community Partners
  • MALT
  • EPPG
  • Morris Arboretum
  • Pennypack Farm and Education Center
  • PEC
  • Hazon
MALT
Judy Wicks of the famed Sustainable Business Network, White Dog Cafe etc.... speak about her new memoir Good Morning, Beautiful Business
Thursday May 30th at 7:00 

Annual Garden Tour
Sat June 1 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
 
EPPG
Permaculture Design Class starts June 9
Some Scholarships available
www.meetup.com/Permie

Morris Arboretum

www.morrisarboretum.org
Garden Railway Opening
Saturday, May 25 1-3pm

 

Let’s Move – Be a Bug!

Saturday, June 15 11am-1pm


Pennypack Farm and Education Center
 
Spring Foraging Walk w "Wildman" Steve Brill
June 2, 2013
 
Marmalade Making w Sandra Allen
June 6, 2013
 
Seeds (ages 3 - 4) & Sprouts (ages 5 - 6) Classes Begin
June 11, 2013
 
Quick Pickling How To's
June 13, 2013

Pennsylvania Environmental Council
pracette@pecpa.org
Rain Garden Design, Installation, and Maintenance Workshop
May 15, 2013 – Wednesday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Huntington Valley Library, 625 Red Lion Rd, Huntingdon Valley, PA

Save The Date

Liberty, Food & Justice for All: A Hazon Jewish Food Festival

Sunday, October 20, 2013, 10 am – 5 pm, location TBD

Spend your day learning and celebrating food, sustainability, and Jewish life in Philadelphia. Presented by Hazon

 

We are looking for
â—‹ Presenters

â—‹ Vendors

â—‹ Sponsors
 

Contact hazonphillyfestival@gmail.com
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